{"id":294692,"date":"2017-02-14T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-demonstrate-in-defense-of-immigrants-as-white-house-vows-more-deportations\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T23:05:03","slug":"thousands-demonstrate-in-defense-of-immigrants-as-white-house-vows-more-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-demonstrate-in-defense-of-immigrants-as-white-house-vows-more-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands demonstrate in defense of immigrants as White House vows more deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Thousands demonstrate in defense of immigrants as White House vows more deportations<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Tom Eley<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Demonstrations in the US continued over the weekend against last week\u2019s mass roundup of immigrants, the first \u201csurge\u201d in deportations since President Donald Trump signed a January 25 executive order dramatically expanding the purview of anti-immigrant police actions.<\/p>\n<p>An annual march for civil rights in Raleigh, North Carolina, held Saturday, drew a record crowd of over 20,000. The turnout was fueled by opposition to Trump\u2019s brutal policies against both Hispanic and Muslim immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>In Minneapolis on Saturday, a crowd estimated at 2,000 marched through the downtown area, blocking streets in the central business district and at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, protests took place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday\u2019s protest, called by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, drew several thousand to Battery Park.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago on Saturday, hundreds rallied at Rogers Park and outside of Trump Tower. Hundreds also demonstrated outside of the White House on Saturday, chanting \u201cUndocumented, Unafraid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In northern Virginia, walkouts involving hundreds of students hit several high schools on Friday. Protests have continued in cities targeted in last week\u2019s raids, including Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, several hundred protesters took to the streets in Los Angeles in response to the crackdown, temporarily blocking Highway 101. There were chants of \u201cShut down ICE! [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Mexico City, thousands marched down the capital city\u2019s central boulevard, the Paseo de la Reforma, in opposition to Trump\u2019s plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/13\/immi-f13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Thousands demonstrate in defense of immigrants as White House vows more deportations By Tom Eley 13 February 2017 Demonstrations in the US continued over the weekend against last week\u2019s mass roundup of immigrants, the first \u201csurge\u201d in deportations since President Donald Trump signed a January 25 executive order dramatically expanding the purview of anti-immigrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}